disaster risk reduction
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Americas endorse historic disaster action plan
MONTREAL, Canada, Mar 10, CMC – The fifth Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas (RP17) has ended here with at least 50 countries, including those in the Caribbean, endorsing a regional action plan (RAP) for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015 – 2030 in the Americas. The plan which has four…
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Today is International Day for Disaster Reduction (October 13th 2015)
International Day for Disaster Reduction is being observed today under the theme ‘Knowledge for life’. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1989 designated the second Wednesday of October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. The International Day was to be observed annually during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-1999. In December 2009, the General Assembly decided to designate 13 October as…
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